Category:Breakable Han characters
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Here are some Han characters that are "broken". They are fragments that when put together, they constitute the original source character. These could be considered a subcategory of ideogrammatic compounds.
Characters without pages at the moment:
- 𬻍𬻌 - Breakable characters derived from 東, pronounced similarly to 叮咚 and likely also of onomatopoeic meaning. From the Huizhou dialect. (source: 《婺北麟清字汇》) Also used separately in Zhuang sawndip.
- 𡉅𡉆 (吉 with the bottom and top 一 in the 口 removed respectively, except the top is 土 instead of 士) - Shaanxi dialect. The dictionary it comes from says that it is pronounced like "⿰礻各喇", which isn't exactly helpful considering that the first character is equally obscure. (I'm going to hazard a guess that ⿰礻各 is a variant of 祫, which would make the equivalent Standard Mandarin reading "xiála".) Means "to sew, to patch, to mend".
- □□ (猪 with the bottom and top 一 in the 日 removed respectively) - Shaanxi dialect. The Standard Mandarin reading would be "kèlóu". Means "piglet".
- □□ (right and left halves of 非 respectively) - onomatopoeia for the sound of wings flapping. Pronunciation: pūlù.